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...Ottawa the Liberals, who had been seeking an issue to topple Diefenbaker's Conservatives, lost no time attacking the government. Though everyone deplored the inappropriateness of the U.S. statement, Liberal Leader Lester Pearson told the Commons: "The real issue for Canadians is: what are the facts and what is the truth about our defense policy?" Leaders of the two minor parties, whose votes would be needed to bring down Diefenbaker's Conservatives on a vote of noconfidence, seemed to agree. Said the New Democratic Party's Tommy Douglas: "The Prime Minister said that the government...
Bing, Bing, Bing. Taylor's first business lessons came from his Irish-descended grandfather, an adventurous Ottawa financier. Says Taylor: "My grandfather's mind worked like mine-bing, bing, bing." After the 1929 crash and a brief career as a partner in an investment firm, young Taylor took over management of the struggling Brading Breweries, the last of his grandfather's besieged holdings. He quickly saw that small breweries would never survive, began quaffing down rivals with mergers and acquisitions that eventually produced Canadian Breweries...
...blow. Montreal's influential French-language Le Devoir picked up a whisper that has been going around for years, reported that Diefenbaker's occasional uncontrollable trembling of the hands could be the result of having Parkinson's disease. At the party's annual convention in Ottawa, Diefenbaker scoffed at the story: "For one who has been described in such touching and dulcet tones by the Liberal Party as being in a state of decrepitude, I want to remind them that we outran them three times, and we'll outrun them again." Conservatives called the whole...
Said Professor Scott Gordon of Ottawa's Carleton University: "It's quite obvious that the financial crisis is well and truly over. The time is ripe, in fact overdue, for the government to take strong expansionist measures...
Mistaken Maxim. Lesage's smashing victory made him a hot national property for the Liberals in Ottawa, particularly since the party historically alternates its leadership between French-speaking and English-speaking Canadians. Current Liberal Leader Lester Pearson, who took over from French Canadian Louis St. Laurent, is working hard to topple the five-month-old minority government of Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and to force new elections. One of the reasons Pearson did not win power in last June's elections was his failure to get Lesage's full support in Quebec. Following the provincial idea...